Wikimedia: $ 25 million collected in 2012

Since November 27, Wikimedia has launched a fundraising over a large part of its services to fund the development, talks and other costs bustling maintenance services offered for free.

In just one month, and would be $ 25 million raised from 1.2 million donors who participate in funding the operation of the sites for the year 2013.

 In an official statement, Sue Gadner, executive director of the foundation is pleased that this transaction have met much success and the online community can work together to continue to distribute content for free in the world.

In the previous collection, users were less generous or less sensitive to the transaction and the collection was displayed at 20 million, a tidy sum that has led to the development of infrastructure, but also the implementation up a mobile version of the site and other solutions for data export format Ebook.

 According to analyzes of firm comScore, Wikipedia and other sites have concentrated more than 483 million unique visitors per month, placing the site in the top 5 most popular websites in the world.

After periods of doubt about the future of Wikipedia and its funding, the foundation seems to have awareness of its users and away temporarily closing threats related to lack of funds.

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Firefox: The 64bit version back soon

According to some rumors on Google Groups, the shift would occur following the request of many developers have revealed that many users exceeded the limit of 4GB of memory imposed by 32-bit systems when using simultaneous a large number of tabs (called a hundred, or even thousands of pages simultaneously)

At first, Benjamin Smedberg said that Firefox was not programmed to respond to this type of case, but relativized by announcing that the necessary changes would not be a real burden in terms of development.

Are concerned nightly versions of Firefox, and each user wishing to continue to benefit from the 64-bit version will know and make himself the installation of future editions.

Indeed, the migration program has not changed, and future updates of existing 64bit version will offer a migration to 32-bit versions. Free to each user then go visit the official Firefox to download the 64 bit version in progress.

However, future versions will be considered 64bit editions and compatibility with third-party plug-ins and add-ons will not be assured. More than a return on its decision, it is a compromise that is proposed, allowing everyone to continue to use Firefox in its 64-bit version in addition to the standard version.

The unspoken goal of Mozilla is certainly different: prevent migration of users to other browsers Internet Explorer or Opera.

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Photos Online: Dropbox bought Snapjoy

For an undisclosed amount, Dropbox just bought Snapjoy. This startup offers a photo service online can import photos from anywhere (computer, Flickr, Instagram, iPhone ...) and arrange them in an album of memories (date, place ... ).

Now Snapjoy no longer accepting new registrations but ensures that existing users can still benefit from the service and access to their photos. Become combined with Dropbox will be cleared in the coming weeks.

 Snapbox with Dropbox team Snapbox merely for the time to dangle experience incredible photo for more than 100 million users of Dropbox.

For Dropbox, it's offensive that continues (to assault Instagram and Flickr?) Also after the purchase of music streaming service Audiogalaxy.

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Google Music Play available in France

Everyone can now access the service purchase online music store Google Play. Registration for the service is done on the website of the Internet giant, which will prompt you in exchange the details of your credit card. 

 The prices of securities musical unit are 1.29 euros. For an album, it takes 6.99, 7.99 or 8.99 euros.
 
The format for digital music files like MP3 is 320 Kbits / s for securities available for this service is also open in the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain. 

 The Internet giant also has a new partnership with Warner Music company will add soon complete its music catalog.  

Google is thus placed frontally against iTunes and Amazon, whose grandfather helped enrichment functions and music catalogs available, which are accustomed users.

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Angry Birds Star Wars lands on Facebook

After flowing several thousand copies on various platforms iOS and Android, Angry Birds has become a phenomenon and true emblem of a new sector for the video game.

Version was installed for free on Facebook and is its variation with the Star Wars license that invites today on the social network. Beta version for now, the application should quickly gather a lot of players from the 22.6 million fans of the title.

If we can believe that success is assured for the title, however, Rovio has its port address carefully, and the Beta should not see announcement with great pomp, allowing the publisher to test his game with a limited number of players.

However, the beta is left accessible to anyone who wants. Rovio is certainly an editor primarily oriented mobile gaming market, but it could be that the company is also a partnership with Facebook as was the case with Zynga.

Angry Birds Star Wars is only the second game Rovio on community network, but the quality and success are waiting for you and the two most successful titles are a large number of titles on the platform, which allow consider the release of several titles of publisher in the near future.

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Dailymotion tests VOD pay

Relatively quietly, Dailymotion began to implement its video on demand pay.

For some videos, a yellow label made ​​its appearance in the thumbnail display. It is the hallmark of a video pay, even if the beginning of each video is free.

Test began with episodes of such series as "Plus Belle la Vie". Such an episode is proposed € 1.99 for 48 hours rental, and unlimited access to all the videos are available for € 2.99 per month.

BFM Business reported that VOD is also about American series Shameless € 1.49 due to the episode, but the idea is to expand the range in early 2013. In this sense, discussions were held with "majors".

Orange holds 49% stake in the online video platform and has an option to purchase up to 100% of the capital in 2013. Orange have the ambition to offer its own VOD offering on Dailymotion, and catch-up TV channels OCS (formerly Orange cinema series).

VOD pay is a long term project of Dailymotion. In the past, officials had reported the launch of a streaming subscription fee, a range of movies, TV series and documentaries or offer video-on-demand subscription around 9 euros per month.

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Gmail: indisponiblité short and this is the end of the world

On Twitter, some users have quickly joked about the Apocalypse or the end of the world yet planned as we all know to December 21, 2012 ...

The cause of this joyous mess ... a simple unavailability of Gmail, Google's webmail 425 million users.

Gmail has been subject to delays or even impossible to access. And users have reported the appearance of a 502 error, namely Bad Gateway or Proxy Error.

The incident, however, did not last long - a few minutes - and apparently it posed particular problems for users of Google Chrome with a browser crash. Apparently a problem with Google Sync.

For explanations and excuses rigor of Google, we will stick to its dashboard apps:

 

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Mega: this is what will the service!

It is via Twitter that Kim Dotcom has posted screenshots of Mega. The service will Mega.co.nz. domain name

It reveals the key generator, the cornerstone of the service, as well as the registration service and file manager.

 For now, Mega invites visitors to give Leure email address to be informed about Mega. The site also offers partners to host the service, informs developers APIs for the service and for investors.

But from January 19, 2013, here's what the service will look like. Remember that the person has chosen this date as a snub to the authorities and in particular the police who stormed his mansion a January 19, 2012.

The first screenshot shows that Mega integrate encryption keys RSA 2048 bits:

 The second screenshot shows that in order to register to Mega, one must specify a name, email address and a password:

Finally, the third screenshot shows the file manager (look at the files: there is a certain "raid_footage.raw"):

An opportunity to discover more features and specifications. Thus, each user will have a Cloud Drive space (probably a digital locker in the cloud) allowing to store (ie to download it) and upload files.

The user can organize them in folders. "Contacts" and "inbox" suggest that it is possible to make contact with other users, synonymous with a future community (no longer download each in his corner) around Mega. 

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Facebook: a ​​few figures on integrating in-app

Facebook and emphasizes applications integrated into the social network, but also the integration of network mobile platforms and third-party applications.

According to Facebook, the site itself focuses more than 350 applications involving more than one million monthly active users.

 Add to this the impressive figure of 200,000 iPhone and Android applications incorporating links and interactions with Facebook. IPhone integration is even blamed as a driver of success for applications with 9 of the top 10 applications marketed integrate functionality associated with the social network of Mark Zuckerberg.

The company says that nearly 220 million users who visit the space applications per month and more than 251 million subscribers every month to play games on the social network.

Always according to Facebook, 45% of the 400 most popular iOS apps using the SDK Facebook, social network integration in the mobile market is truly focused on Facebook in the absence of competition enjoying much popularity.

Other social networks benefit even incorporating Facebook into their design to expand their audience and gain importance, including Pinterest is particularly pointed.

Remains whether highlighting these figures have the same impact with investors, concerns about the ability of social networks to monetize its members remains a real question. Especially the last band split with Zynga has not really played in favor of the share price of Facebook.

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Facebook: a hackathon Windows 8

From tonight until tomorrow (United States), the headquarters of Facebook in Menlo Park is hosting a marathon coding. A hackathon. For nearly 24 hours, developers are invited to floor on the design of social applications on the Windows platform 8.

To help them and answer all their questions, but also experts Facebook Microsoft will be present. The best "hacks" will in turn rewarded. But promised exceptional price undisclosed.

Under the sign of Windows 8, the hackathon will packed and no involvement - free - is now accepted. Participants do not need to master. NET, they can develop native applications using HTML5 and JavaScript.

Where appropriate, for example Microsoft will provide Mac users the tools needed to run Windows 8 on their machine and development tools.

To kick off the hackathon, Facebook will submit ideas and examples of applications. Recall that for the moment, Facebook does not offer formal application in the Windows Store. To see if this will change after the hackathon.

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